Complexity Science and World Affairs

Contents

V I I List of Figures and Tables ix Foreword xi Stuart A.Kauffman To the Reader xvii Acknowledgments xxi 1 Why a Science of Complexity? 1 2 Basic Concepts of Complexity Science 23 3 A Crucial Test Case: Why the Baltic Is Not the Balkans 39 4 Culture and the Capacity to Cope with Complexity 55 5 Complexity Science as a Tool to Understand the New Eurasia 71 6 How Complexity Concepts Explain Past and Present Fitness 107 Contents V I I I C O N T E N T S 7 Hyperpower Challenged: Prospects for Americans 121 8 What Future for the American Dream? 147 9 Why Is South Korea Not North Korea? 165 10 Toward a New Paradigm for Global Studies 179 11 Challenges to Complexity Science 201 Afterword: Science and Art in this Book: Exploring the Genome Together 211 Daniel Kohn Notes 213 References 227 Index 245 ...